activesupport 3.2.0
Potentially unintended unmarshalling of user-provided objects in MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore
critical severity CVE-2020-8165~> 5.2.4, >= 5.2.4.3, >= 6.0.3.1
There is potentially unexpected behaviour in the MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore where, when
untrusted user input is written to the cache store using the raw: true parameter, re-reading the result
from the cache can evaluate the user input as a Marshalled object instead of plain text. Vulnerable code looks like:
data = cache.fetch("demo", raw: true) { untrusted_string }
Versions Affected: rails < 5.2.5, rails < 6.0.4
Not affected: Applications not using MemCacheStore or RedisCacheStore. Applications that do not use the raw option when storing untrusted user input.
Fixed Versions: rails >= 5.2.4.3, rails >= 6.0.3.1
Impact
Unmarshalling of untrusted user input can have impact up to and including RCE. At a minimum, this vulnerability allows an attacker to inject untrusted Ruby objects into a web application.
In addition to upgrading to the latest versions of Rails, developers should ensure that whenever
they are calling Rails.cache.fetch they are using consistent values of the raw parameter for both
reading and writing, especially in the case of the RedisCacheStore which does not, prior to these changes,
detect if data was serialized using the raw option upon deserialization.
Workarounds
It is recommended that application developers apply the suggested patch or upgrade to the latest release as
soon as possible. If this is not possible, we recommend ensuring that all user-provided strings cached using
the raw argument should be double-checked to ensure that they conform to the expected format.
XML Parsing Vulnerability affecting JRuby users
high severity CVE-2013-1856~> 3.1.12, >= 3.2.13
~> 2.3.0
The ActiveSupport XML parsing functionality supports multiple pluggable backends. One backend supported for JRuby users is ActiveSupport::XmlMini_JDOM which makes use of the javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder class. In some JVM configurations the default settings of that class can allow an attacker to construct XML which, when parsed, will contain the contents of arbitrary URLs including files from the application server. They may also allow for various denial of service attacks. Action Pack
Possible XSS Security Vulnerability in SafeBuffer#bytesplice
medium severity CVE-2023-28120~> 6.1.7, >= 6.1.7.3, >= 7.0.4.3
There is a vulnerability in ActiveSupport if the new bytesplice method is called on a SafeBuffer with untrusted user input. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-28120.
Versions Affected: All. Not affected: None Fixed Versions: 7.0.4.3, 6.1.7.3
Impact
ActiveSupport uses the SafeBuffer string subclass to tag strings as html_safe after they have been sanitized. When these strings are mutated, the tag is should be removed to mark them as no longer being html_safe.
Ruby 3.2 introduced a new bytesplice method which ActiveSupport did not yet understand to be a mutation. Users on older versions of Ruby are likely unaffected.
All users running an affected release and using bytesplice should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.
Workarounds
Avoid calling bytesplice on a SafeBuffer (html_safe) string with untrusted user input.
Possible Denial of Service attack in Active Support
medium severity CVE-2015-3227>= 4.2.2, ~> 4.1.11, ~> 3.2.22
Specially crafted XML documents can cause applications to raise a
SystemStackError and potentially cause a denial of service attack. This
only impacts applications using REXML or JDOM as their XML processor. Other
XML processors that Rails supports are not impacted.
All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the work arounds immediately.
Workarounds
Use an XML parser that is not impacted by this problem, such as Nokogiri or LibXML. You can change the processor like this:
ActiveSupport::XmlMini.backend = 'Nokogiri'
If you cannot change XML parsers, then adjust
RUBY_THREAD_MACHINE_STACK_SIZE.
CVE-2012-3464 rubygem-actionpack: potential XSS vulnerability
medium severity CVE-2012-3464~> 3.0.17, ~> 3.1.8, >= 3.2.8
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a ' (quote) character.
CVE-2012-1098 rubygem-activesupport: XSS in SafeBuffer#[] (unescaped safe buffers can be marked as safe)
medium severity CVE-2012-1098~> 3.0.12, ~> 3.1.4, >= 3.2.2
< 3.0.0
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.12, 3.1.x before 3.1.4, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a SafeBuffer object that is manipulated through certain methods.
ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Active Support’s underscore
low severity CVE-2023-22796~> 5.2.8, >= 5.2.8.15, ~> 6.1.7, >= 6.1.7.1, >= 7.0.4.1
There is a possible regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Active Support. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-22796.
Versions Affected: All Not affected: None Fixed Versions: 5.2.8.15 (Rails LTS), 6.1.7.1, 7.0.4.1
Impact
A specially crafted string passed to the underscore method can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability.
This affects String#underscore, ActiveSupport::Inflector.underscore, String#titleize, and any other methods using these.
All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.
Workarounds
There are no feasible workarounds for this issue.
Users on Ruby 3.2.0 or greater may be able to reduce the impact by configuring Regexp.timeout.
No officially reported memory leakage issues detected.
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